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What are your favourite books that aren't regularly discussed?

>> No.19721657

>>19721632
Lem's books. We got Pynchon being shilled daily,but we rarely get any Lem threads

>> No.19721659

>>19721632
Dreamtigers. I think it is Borges' best work.

>> No.19721678
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>Reflections on the Revolution in France by Burke, Edmund
Very rarely discussed despite Burke's importance and insight.

>The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Herodotus is much more discussed, despite Thucydides' galaxy brain.

>The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Le Bon, Gustave
No one really discusses Le Bon unfortunately, which is too bad because he was of great talent in sociology and psychology.

>Greek tragedies
Sure, they're namedropped sometimes, but it's very rarely that any tragedy is discussed in any detail, aside from perhaps Oresteia or some tragedy of Sophocles from time to time.

> Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Fussell, Paul
I guess poetry theory is discussed very little in general.

>> No.19721679

Interesting women writers like Kathy Acker, Fleur Jaeggy, Anne Carson. I despise the obnoxious kneejerk misogynst “culture” on this board, it shows most of the users here to be the closeminded incel shitwits they are.
>inb4 seething sobbing (You)s

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>>19721679
>Anne Carson
She's just terrible. Showed her to my female friend who quite enjoys poetry, and she found no redeeming qualities either.
>closeminded incel shitwits
>if you don't like shitty female writers you're an incel
Perhaps you might enjoy reddit more?

>> No.19721703

>>19721692
her translations of euripedes are quite fascinating
>if you don't like shitty female writers you're an incel
if you categorically dismiss all writers as shitty by virtue of being female then yes, you are categorically an uncultured swine

>> No.19721712

>>19721679
I like a lot of female authors but I am still probably everything you hate politically and culturally. I like Jaeggy and some of Carson's translations.

I particularly like Annie Dillard.

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>>19721632
Nobody reads history so nobody can understand me
>Early Carolingian Warfare
This is honestly the best academic military history I think exists. The sheer amount of notes and how informative it is makes me cry. It really enlightened me to just how much warfare was done with all the preperation and formation of morale, logistics and cohesive identity for an army.

>Ruling the Later Roman Empire
You could honestly just slap a modern bureaucracy on top but with Roman culture and see what you get The sheer scale of Roman government and how they balanced ambitions, senority, infulence and the Emperors meddlling makes for a dynamic system of government while also discussing ways the government was actually run and how it interacted with people.

>> No.19721764

>>19721741
nice ‘tism.

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>>19721632

>> No.19722230

Hardly anything I read is discussed here because you’re all tryhard fags with your philosophy and classics bullshit

>> No.19722231

>>19721657
I've only read fiasco and it was atrocious

>> No.19722300

>>19721632
Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion

>> No.19722301

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.19722382

Zhuangzi, Leizi, any other books in the Daozang that aren't the Dao De Jing, best discussions I can get are on /x/

>> No.19722404

>>19721632
Whitehead's Process and Reality and de Sutter's Pornographies du Contemporain

>> No.19722411

>>19722300
Based

>> No.19722698

>>19721632
The Will to Power

>> No.19724270

>>19722230
So tell us what you read

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this

>> No.19724680

>>19721632
Lookout Cartridge
Women and Men
Giles Goat-boy
The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
Ratner’s Star
The Age of Wire and String
Mulligan Stew
Take Five
At Swim Two Birds
Watt

This board reads way too much translated ‘classics’ shit and it’s a damn shame

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>>19721712
Dillard is based, first book I read this year was Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It ruled

>> No.19724711

Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson
Sometimes A Great Notion by Kesey
Tropic of Cancer by Miller
The Colossus of Maroussi by Miller
Look Homeward, Angel by Wolfe
Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar
Mrs Dalloway by Woolf
Germinal by Zola
Buddenbrooks by Mann

>> No.19724712

>>19721632
American Pastoral - Roth
The Prince of Tides/Lords of Discipline/Beach Music - Conroy
Dexter Books - Lindsay
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Capote
Dexter Books

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>>19721632
A /lit/izen wrote this iirc

>> No.19725756

>>19722230
based. Fuck pseuds